Manual Handling: Non-Patient Handlers

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Course Details:

Audience: Staff whose role does not involve patient handling activities

Duration: 25 minutes

Learning Objectives:

• Moving and handling risk factors
• Employers and employees' responsibilities under relevant national Health & Safety legislation
• The principles of safer moving & handling
• The principles of using an ergonomic approach for moving and handling activities to support musculo-skeletal health
• The factors to consider when undertaking a dynamic risk assessment prior to carrying out a moving and handling activity
• Suitable risk control strategies and resources to facilitate good practice following a risk assessment appropriate to the activity and individual's role.
• Identify their own organisation's risk management processes to inform safe systems of work
• Identify the support available to facilitate good practice
• Demonstrate application of safer moving and handling principles when using the range of equipment relevant to the individual's job role and setting